I went to the UK holiday resort that’s more like Ibiza – with ‘island’ parties and silent discos

THE vigor is precocious arsenic my chap party-goers, dressed successful blinging nine gear, and with their faces covered successful glitter, fling their hands towards the sky.

Club classics are echoing astir the country portion powerhouse singers loop retired melodies and podium dancers twist their bodies successful clip to the music.

This could easy beryllium a thumping nine nighttime successful Ibiza, but alternatively of dense beats successful a warehouse, we’re listening to nine tunes played by stringed instruments and saxophones successful a countryside setting.

I’m astatine Warner Leisure’s Heythrop Park for an Ibiza Sunsets interruption that proves you truly don’t request to fork retired connected flights to the White Isle to enactment similar you’re there.

For this weekend, the Oxfordshire countryside retreat was hosting DJ sets from creation aficionados Dave Pearce and Vernon Kay, reimagined anthems from 16-piece orchestra Ibiza In Symphony, and adjacent an old-school neon party, implicit with glow sticks.

Heythrop Park, a Grade II-listed erstwhile stately home, is much reminiscent of Downton Abbey than the super-clubs of San Antonio.

Although the philharmonic invited from a saxophonist instantly conjured up memories of the enactment island.

I was staying successful a spacious superior country with ample windows offering astonishing views of the parkland and countryside mounting — a small antithetic to the seaside surroundings of galore Ibiza hotels.

A much emblematic Warner play is usually itinerary-led and packed with activities, but an Ibiza Sunsets interruption is simply a much chilled affair.

There is evening amusement dispersed crossed the three-day weekend, including DJ sets inspired by legendary San Antonio nightspot Cafe Mambo.

But the remainder of the clip tin beryllium spent astatine leisure, taking vantage of activities specified arsenic archery and clay pigeon shooting oregon yoga.

The archetypal time progressive a peaceful stroll astir the grounds wherever I stumbled crossed a soundless disco successful afloat plaything successful the formation club-like Moroccan Garden.

We were ushered to articulation successful with the stomping feet, but it turned retired to beryllium conscionable arsenic overmuch amusive watching the assemblage softly cutting immoderate shapes.

With each that partying, there’s bound to beryllium a fewer sore feet — and heads — truthful erstwhile you’re not swaying to melodies, you tin capable your clip with a sojourn to the onsite spa.

I opted for a dip successful the excavation and a sauna for arsenic agelong arsenic I could withstand the heat, earlier heading to the extracurricular blistery tubs.

Unusually for British summertime time, the upwind was glorious erstwhile I visited.

And without a unreality successful the sky, I could astir judge I was successful the Balearics.

For those successful request of existent TLC, optional extras astatine the spa see facials, mud wraps and reflexology treatments.

Stomping feet

I’d booked successful for a Drift Away full-body massage which surely eased my aching limbs and enactment maine into a zen-like state.

Ibiza Sunsets packages see breakfasts and three-course dinners, truthful you volition ne'er spell hungry.

The hotel’s poshest restaurant, Brasserie 32, serves refined pub fare including food pies, beef abbreviated rib and risottos.

Or there’s the Market Kitchen, a buffet-style edifice successful the beauteous orangery.

I ate determination connected my last evening and was serenaded by a flamenco guitarist.

Outside of the main restaurants, visitors tin enactment the nights distant successful the Late Lounge barroom which got everyone connected their feet dancing to anthems during my stay.

If you similar a much cosy atmosphere, the resort’s pub, The Travelling Duke, serves spirits, ales and ciders arsenic good arsenic steaks, and food and spot dinners.

With the prima inactive beating down, it seemed rude not to person a portion extracurricular connected the terrace wherever a DJ was playing chilled Ibiza sounds that channelled the vigor of the celebrated sunset sessions astatine Cafe Del Mar.

Then it was clip for the last evening lawsuit — the 1 we had each been waiting for — arsenic celebrated creation DJs Dave and Vernon took to the decks to transport america backmost 30 years to the Nineties.

And they surely didn’t disappoint!

The Late Lounge erupted to the exhilarating sounds of Robert Miles, Darude, Faithless and galore more, amid an ambiance that could lone beryllium described arsenic electric.

I couldn’t person been much grateful for my ultra-comfy furniture astatine the extremity of the night.

Partying that hard successful your fifties tin beryllium exhausting, but not erstwhile you person entree to Heythrop’s plush facilities.

I could get utilized to this.